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It might not be the end of the world, but with The Periodic Calendar, it’s about to be the world as you’ve never experienced it before!

Utilizing a previously ignored dimension within our shared conception of time, Ape Con Myth has reconfigured the Gregorian calendar into a fully functional perpetual calendar capable of explore the past, present and future!

It is the Periodic Table of Days and to celebrate its launch, we are getting the ball rolling with an Indiegogo campaign to fund the first edition prints!

The problem with holidays given a specific date, such as the 4th of July or December 25th, is that they regularly fall in the middle of the week. While Wednesday is a fine day to take off if you’re sick or need to run some errands, calling it a holiday can be a bit of a stretch. Most weekends don’t even earn the title, so what are we supposed to do with one day, have a parade?

Of all the problems in the world, this one was addressed by Congress back in 1968. With the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, Washington’s Birthday, Memorial Day, Columbus Day and Veterans Day were turned into guaranteed three-day weekends.

Although Congress changed their tune on Veterans Day, returning it to November 11th in 1975, we still enjoy four Monday holidays, including Labor Day, thanks to this Act. The catch of course is: They are uniform Mondays. If you’ve ever spent one returning from a trip, you know they can fall short of feeling like a holiday too. After all, it’s still a Monday.

Sometimes you can’t win for losing, but when the idea is to make everything the same, … well, it wasn’t much of an idea to begin with. And speaking of, you can help make the next change in our holiday schedule by supporting the effort to turn Columbus Day into Exploration Day! For the why try Boing Boing, otherwise head on over to ExplorationDayUSA.org to find out what you can do.

Meanwhile, despite the Maya Long Count Calendar drawing ever closer to the end of the current b’ak’tun on December 21st, Ape Con Myth has taken a leap of faith and commenced production on a 2013 calendar.

In honor of the world probably not ending this year, we’re making the last calendar you’ll ever need.

If you don’t catch the reference, 30 Rock has stepped up and given long-overdue meaning to Leap Day. Unless you have a better idea, it might be our best chance to give this awkward and abitrary day some life.

Meanwhile, if you find yourself wishing the rest of the year could have a bit of a twist to it, the Ape Con Myth 2012 Novelty Calendar is ready to serve up the next ten months in ways you’ve never seen before! (Mainly because calendars become much less useful once you start messing with them.)

The Ape Con Myth 2011 Have a Nice Dot Calendar is drawing to a close. Now it’s time to wrap yours up and send a copy in for analysis. Here’s ACM’s results straight from the home office, with weekdays in red and weekends, along with federal holidays, in blue:

The latter, a timeline of past, present and future predictions of Earth’s doom, starts things off on a familiar note:

“According to Isaac Asimov’s Book of Facts (1979), an Assyrian clay tablet dating to approximately 2800 BC was unearthed bearing the words “Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. There are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end. Bribery and corruption are common.” This is one of the earliest examples of the perception of moral decay in society being interpreted as a sign of the imminent end.”